On Nov. 7, The Blue Note hosts rap legend Talib Kweli, and platforms local rappers Damoe Donjuan, Reaceyung and Tef Poe ...
On Tuesday (October 30th) Kanye West announced he was distancing himself from politics. In a series of tweets, the rapper said that he realized he was being used to "spread messages" he didn't ...
Black Star (Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def) have been playing shows this year as we await their possible long-awaited sophomore album (Yasiin Bey teased an announcement of it, but Talib later ...
Talib Kweli gave fans some hope that a new Black Star album may be on the way. The rapper took to social media to tease that he and Black Star duo mate Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, will be ...
Consequence ended 2023 with a bang by releasing a new diss track aimed at his current rival Talib Kweli. The record, titled “Beef Forever,” includes shots at the Black Star member’s ex-wife and his ...
Amazon and Talib Kweli are not best friends. This year, I thought I kept hearing Talib Kweli’s voice on a catchy Christmas song being used in Amazon Prime ads. The song isn’t bad at all, but it raised ...
Niko Is has linked up with Talib Kweli, MidaZ the Beast, A.L. Punchline, and Wordsworth for a lyrical, hard-hitting, classic hip-hop posse cut titled “Live From The Blue Note.” Take “classic” with a ...
Yasiin Bey & Talib Kweli have finally followed up their classic 1998 Black Star album with No Fear of Time which was produced by Madlib and has features from Black Thought and Yummy Bingham. They’ve ...
We’ve been waiting on a second Black Star album since the Clinton administration. The fact that it exists — No Fear of Time, out now — is incredible. Their first album, 1998’s Mos Def & Talib Kweli ...
Way back in 1998, when Yasiin Bey was still calling himself Mos Def, he and Talib Kweli teamed up for an album called Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, an instant classic of underground rap. In ...
Veteran rapper Talib Kweli was involved in a hellfire-heated exchange with security guards backstage at his Black Star ...